This week Amy Lewis and Melissa Gurney are live from VMWorld with special guest Vaughn Stewart (@vstewed) VP of Technology at Pure Storage. Together they roll through all the latest buzzwords: bio-computing, cloud, SDDC, blockchain and transformation. This is a live edition from VMworld, background noise and all.

This week Peter Smallbone steers the ship with Amy Lewis and Eddie Saipetch with special guest Hal Rottenberg from Splunk. This week the nerdcast focuses on the Internet of Things, both consumer and business.

This week, Ed and Melissa are joined by Lauren Malhoit (@Malhoit) co-host of TechWise TV. Together they dive into blackhat phone prep, Meg Whitman's departure from HP Inc, net neutrality and Russian robots that swipe right or kill you.

(0:00) Lauren puts Greg in the Trunk (3:50) Eddie just likes to name drop (7:30) Phone prep for Blackhat (12:00) Amazon Landscaping Services (14:28) Giving HP Inc the bye Felicia (17:43) Psycho hiring and making large decisions (21:24) Pouring one out for the ipod (22:43) How tech giants show they don't care (28:43) Russian robots that kill you if they don't like you (29:52) How to put on a tech TV show (35:50) Normal? (48:10) Fitbit: Narcing you out (49:12) Stalking Lauren